I found with these printers you can get a short amount of extra life out of the old tires by turning them inside out. Should last long enough to order new ones.
I have on of these at work. It's prints more than 300 pages per day. It is abused by a bunch of co-workers when it jams paper but it's still going strong after 5 years.
Well that just pisses me off. I got the same model of printer from one of my past jobs and never thought to replace the rollers. I eventually got an HP LaserJet 1300n for free from my current job though so it's no big deal.
Good job, especially with the Scotch tape fix. Nice to see that Lexmark made it fairly easy. The local NAPA store has a printer very much like this (with Ethernet) and it's doing the same thing. It may follow me home one day--they like to give me their old stuff when it starts to flake out.
It is interesting that the page count does not agree with the number of toner cartridges used.
I got a Brother LASER printer for 8$ at a junk store. It worked for a while, but it too stopped feeding the paper from the tray. Thanks for the tip = easy fix. It's nice NOT to have to buy those dam ink jet carts so often, a toner lasts for years in home usage.
some office gave me a hp laserjet 4050TN with 200k pages on the 'odometer'. It was flashing some message so they gave it away. Turns out it reminds you to do maintenance at 200k and all you had to do was hold a button down as your turned it on to remove the message. I did that and must have printed3k pages since then. the other week a woman gave me a free 10k oem cartridge for it. I got around 20 various rollers for it for 11 bucks on ebay from china. It's great.
@lineartechbd1600 HP Laserjet 4000 series printers last forever as long as you actually install a maintenance kit every 200-250k. If you shop around they can be had for around $90. I have ones at work with 900k, 800k, 550k, and 500k prints on them all still in service.
The maintenance kit replaces the fuser, a roller under the toner cartridge(which will start to melt apart after a while and cause bad prints, and a bunch of rollers.
In a bind, you can take the rubber tire off of the wheels, flip them inside out, and put them back on. They're not designed to work that way, but it'll go for a while.
Most Dell printers are Lexmarks, the chassis in this one is probably the one used in the 1700s but the outside case is different.
That was an easy fix! Good deal on your part! My cheap cheap all in one printer that came bundled with my HP laptop died, and basically it ran for so so long, on standby, that it actually overheated...would not work anymore...no matter which cords or adapters I used, even doing the reset thing on the website didn't work. Either way, I bought a Samsung laser from Wal-Mart, 70 bucks off 150 normally, and even the starter toner gives me 1000 pages, not a bad deal at all!
Those clips are typical poor Lexmark design. They seen to consistently engineer crap based on what I have seen and fixed in the past. Free is a good price though, you couldn't pay me to take a Lexmark over an HP laser if I was given the choice though (pickup rollers last more then 20k pages on the HPs too).
I landed up buying a used HP color laser after dealing with clogged (I'm talking to you Epson) and generally crappy inkjets. Works great so far and it duplexes!
@NJRoadfan I can only agree with your comments about Epson inkjets - I have a DX4850 and it's appalling, eats ink faster than anything I've ever seen, often sprays ink over itself, is often poor at pulling in the paper, and is incredibly noisy - it used to squeak like mad, that quietened down after a while.
There's actually no need to replace the rollers. At my previous job, we'd used "Rubber Renue" comes in a brown bottle made by MG Chemicals. You apply it to the old dried out rollers and it's like new again.
Not sure how much the stuff costs, but when you've got multiple printers to fix/maintain it's definitely handy.
Nice job. Even though it's very cheap and easy to fix, most people would just buy a new printer. What a waste of money and a printer.
Also, is it true that if a printer isn't used for more than a few weeks, the ink jet things clog up and it can't be repaired? A guy at the computer store told my mom that.
Haha that's a cool outtro too. The exploding pizza!
Yes if it a inkjet and you don't use it for a while, your heads will clog, but mosly on Canon or epson or big format/plotter printer, that use a separate print head. The cheaper consumer hp printers, have the heads on the ink cartridge itseft, so is not a problem.
@wilkes85 I have an HP color inkjet printer, but I don't use it anymore because of that ink clogging problem. But thankfully laser printers don't have that problem. You can let them sit for months or even years and they'll still print perfectly.
@vwestlife Very Cool. I did get from an auction, an HP OfficeJet g85 Printer That when I copied something in B&W, it Worked like a charm! I thought it had sat for more than 4 months. :-)
I found with these printers you can get a short amount of extra life out of the old tires by turning them inside out. Should last long enough to order new ones.
reddragon27284 1 month ago
@toyota1992h No.
vwestlife 2 months ago
You can rebuild the drum
Just need to empty the waste toner in the back and clean the parts
irulethe70s 6 months ago
I have the DELL variant
They used the E240/E240n
irulethe70s 6 months ago
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I have on of these at work. It's prints more than 300 pages per day. It is abused by a bunch of co-workers when it jams paper but it's still going strong after 5 years.
c0v3n4n7 7 months ago
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c0v3n4n7 7 months ago
Well that just pisses me off. I got the same model of printer from one of my past jobs and never thought to replace the rollers. I eventually got an HP LaserJet 1300n for free from my current job though so it's no big deal.
jdomenech1986 7 months ago
nice well donr good job
GROUCHYDEVIL 8 months ago
Such a simple problem and a simple solution. That goes with just about everything I've found lying on the side of the road.
I still have the video of my adventure in the Wal-Mart Christmas clearance aisle, which is where that video came from. :-)
CenTexVideo 9 months ago
under what model does Dell sell this?
Dell0304 9 months ago
@Dell0304 I'm sure Google could find the answer. ;-)
vwestlife 9 months ago
it is a Dell 1700/1710
mjf85742 7 months ago
It is easier to just remove the tires off the new hubs and place them on the old hubs
mjf85742 7 months ago
@Dell0304 E240n
irulethe70s 6 months ago
@Dell0304 Dell 1710/1710n
irulethe70s 3 months ago
It's easy to obtain working, or easily repairable electronics nowadays for a steal, or for free.
MIKON8ERISBACK 9 months ago
Good job, especially with the Scotch tape fix. Nice to see that Lexmark made it fairly easy. The local NAPA store has a printer very much like this (with Ethernet) and it's doing the same thing. It may follow me home one day--they like to give me their old stuff when it starts to flake out.
It is interesting that the page count does not agree with the number of toner cartridges used.
uxwbill 9 months ago
I got a Brother LASER printer for 8$ at a junk store. It worked for a while, but it too stopped feeding the paper from the tray. Thanks for the tip = easy fix. It's nice NOT to have to buy those dam ink jet carts so often, a toner lasts for years in home usage.
UmaBlinky 9 months ago
What a steal! How cool. :) JC
BadEditPro 9 months ago
by the way, i have been getting things from china is around less than a week.
lineartechbd1600 9 months ago
some office gave me a hp laserjet 4050TN with 200k pages on the 'odometer'. It was flashing some message so they gave it away. Turns out it reminds you to do maintenance at 200k and all you had to do was hold a button down as your turned it on to remove the message. I did that and must have printed3k pages since then. the other week a woman gave me a free 10k oem cartridge for it. I got around 20 various rollers for it for 11 bucks on ebay from china. It's great.
lineartechbd1600 9 months ago
@lineartechbd1600 HP Laserjet 4000 series printers last forever as long as you actually install a maintenance kit every 200-250k. If you shop around they can be had for around $90. I have ones at work with 900k, 800k, 550k, and 500k prints on them all still in service.
The maintenance kit replaces the fuser, a roller under the toner cartridge(which will start to melt apart after a while and cause bad prints, and a bunch of rollers.
sandmanxo 9 months ago
In a bind, you can take the rubber tire off of the wheels, flip them inside out, and put them back on. They're not designed to work that way, but it'll go for a while.
Most Dell printers are Lexmarks, the chassis in this one is probably the one used in the 1700s but the outside case is different.
ManiacalMichael504 9 months ago
@ManiacalMichael504
Actually quite a few of the lasers are Samsung.
douro20 9 months ago
That was an easy fix! Good deal on your part! My cheap cheap all in one printer that came bundled with my HP laptop died, and basically it ran for so so long, on standby, that it actually overheated...would not work anymore...no matter which cords or adapters I used, even doing the reset thing on the website didn't work. Either way, I bought a Samsung laser from Wal-Mart, 70 bucks off 150 normally, and even the starter toner gives me 1000 pages, not a bad deal at all!
talldude123 9 months ago
Those clips are typical poor Lexmark design. They seen to consistently engineer crap based on what I have seen and fixed in the past. Free is a good price though, you couldn't pay me to take a Lexmark over an HP laser if I was given the choice though (pickup rollers last more then 20k pages on the HPs too).
I landed up buying a used HP color laser after dealing with clogged (I'm talking to you Epson) and generally crappy inkjets. Works great so far and it duplexes!
NJRoadfan 9 months ago
@NJRoadfan I can only agree with your comments about Epson inkjets - I have a DX4850 and it's appalling, eats ink faster than anything I've ever seen, often sprays ink over itself, is often poor at pulling in the paper, and is incredibly noisy - it used to squeak like mad, that quietened down after a while.
Lukeno52 9 months ago
There's actually no need to replace the rollers. At my previous job, we'd used "Rubber Renue" comes in a brown bottle made by MG Chemicals. You apply it to the old dried out rollers and it's like new again.
Not sure how much the stuff costs, but when you've got multiple printers to fix/maintain it's definitely handy.
TehMG 9 months ago
or just put glue on the roller
kargaroc386 9 months ago
getting a free awesome printer!
JlGold13a 9 months ago
Nice job. Even though it's very cheap and easy to fix, most people would just buy a new printer. What a waste of money and a printer.
Also, is it true that if a printer isn't used for more than a few weeks, the ink jet things clog up and it can't be repaired? A guy at the computer store told my mom that.
Haha that's a cool outtro too. The exploding pizza!
wilkes85 9 months ago
@wilkes85 With inkjet printers, yes, they can clog up if left unused for a long time.
Laser printers however can sit for months with no problem.
TehMG 9 months ago
@wilkes85
Yes if it a inkjet and you don't use it for a while, your heads will clog, but mosly on Canon or epson or big format/plotter printer, that use a separate print head. The cheaper consumer hp printers, have the heads on the ink cartridge itseft, so is not a problem.
RetroPCDOS 9 months ago
@wilkes85 I have an HP color inkjet printer, but I don't use it anymore because of that ink clogging problem. But thankfully laser printers don't have that problem. You can let them sit for months or even years and they'll still print perfectly.
vwestlife 9 months ago
@vwestlife Very Cool. I did get from an auction, an HP OfficeJet g85 Printer That when I copied something in B&W, it Worked like a charm! I thought it had sat for more than 4 months. :-)
skypedog221 9 months ago
put a rubber band around them !
myozone 9 months ago
You could also have used double sided :D
TheDataZoo 9 months ago